Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start, others add, the student movement has sustained its momentum. "Seven years after Soweto, despite the fact that almost...
...University of California at San Diego. One reason was the lack of an adequate definition for the concept. According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, the Austrian-born founding father of stress research, stress is simply "the rate of wear and tear in the body." But others persist in using the term to refer
...reduce the risk of aggressive, foraging bears running into trouble, the rangers regularly trap and tranquilize strays and carry them by helicopter to remote areas of the park. But some of the grizzlies, regarded by rangers as unusually intelligent animals, persist in heading back to their new feeding grounds and eventually must be shot...
...Senate subcommittee was far from totally satisfied with what Shultz offered. "We condemn their corruption and denial of human rights," said Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii about the Salvadoran government. "But these abominations still persist. Why do we not lower the boom?" Complained Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "El Salvador is just thumbing their nose at us. They're saying give us dollars and go to hell." Then the subcommittee, which has a 5-to-4 Republican majority, voted 7 to 2 to let the Administration shift the full $60 million to El Salvador, but only...
...Marine Corps and the Israeli Defense Forces. In a scathing letter to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, which was later released by the Pentagon, U.S. Marine Commandant General Robert Barrow complained that Israeli forces in Lebanon have consistently "harassed, endangered and degraded" U.S. troops. He asserted that the Israelis "persist in creating serious incidents" and suggested that these episodes had been "timed, orchestrated and executed for obtuse Israeli political purposes...